Students and the City of Brussels: the weKONEKT.week

On the programme: Hack-it-green hackathon, Racial bias in tech panel and workshop, Fighting Spirits on hard martial arts, weKONEKT.well-being tables, Medialab and more. For the fifth time in a row, students, academic staff and partners in Brussels are joining forces during the weKONEKT.week. This year, from Monday 28 March to Friday 1 April 2022, students from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), l' Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Erasmushogeschool Brussel (EhB) will be going into the city en masse, with and for Brussels. Together, the university communities put topics on the agenda and get to know the city and its citizens better. Together with partner organizations, the students develop projects and organize activities for the general public. The program also includes a series of guest lectures within the framework of various courses. Student initiatives For their Hackathon, the VUB Green Team will head to Be-Here, a sustainable business center in the old Byrrh halls in the Canal Zone.